A heartbroken widow is suing Croydon Health Services NHS Trust after her husband, the well-known co-owner of Caribsoul, was admitted to hospital with non-life threatening symptoms but died the next day.

Tony Taylor died in September last year after he was admitted to Croydon University Hospital’s A&E department following a brief illness resulting from his diabetes and hypertension.

His grieving wife, Monica, has slammed Croydon Health Services NHS Trust, which runs the hospital, after Mr Taylor died in hospital.

She is suing the Trust for medical negligence, making angry claims that her 57-year-old husband's "tragic death could have been avoided".

"I was told the hospital would keep him in for a few days then send him home. But instead he died the next day.

“Anyone who lives in this area knows this hospital’s appalling reputation.

"I am suing the hospital to focus the management’s mind on how terribly Tony was treated, so it will learn from those mistakes, so hopefully other families do not suffer in future.”

The happy couple were married for 34 years and had two children together.

Tony and Monica Taylor ran Caribsoul together (Image: Grant Melton)

Mrs Taylor's lawer, Terence Channer, a specialist solicitor at national law firm Scott-Moncrieff, says the death "should have been avoided".

Mr Channer said: “The evidence [from the Trust's investigation] shows a complete failure by the hospital, so we are hoping the Trust admits its negligence quickly and avoids putting Mrs Taylor through a lengthy and costly legal battle.

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“These failings appear to have significantly contributed to his death.

"They include failing to recognise the severe sepsis, mistakes in prescribing and administering urgent antibiotics, delays in reporting critical matters and referring him to the Critical Care Department, failing to follow treatment guidelines, failing to recognise his acute kidney injury and a host of other failings."